Tom Lewis (born 5 January 1991) is an English

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who currently plays on the

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. He has also played on the

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Amateur career

In 2009, Lewis won the Boys Amateur Championship at

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. In 2010, he lost to Peter O'Malley in a playoff for the New South Wales Open, and then tied for 12th place at the

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. This was followed by victory on the

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in the 2011 St Andrews Links Trophy. Lewis qualified for the 2011 Open Championship at Royal St George's via Local Final Qualifying at

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. In the first round he shot a five-under-par 65, giving him a share of the lead alongside

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. This was the lowest single-round score by an amateur in

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history, and the equal lowest in any major championship. It made him the first amateur to lead a major after a round since Mike Reid in the 1976 U.S. Open and the first amateur to lead the Open Championship since

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in 1968. One of Lewis's first-round partners was Tom Watson, after whom he is named. Lewis finished tied for 30th place and as the low amateur, he won the

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Professional career

Lewis turned professional after the 2011 Walker Cup. He made his professional debut at the Austrian Golf Open in September, shooting a two-over-par 74 in the first round. He recovered to finish in a tie for tenth. His maiden professional win came the following month at the Portugal Masters on the

, shooting rounds of 70, 64, 68, and 65 to finish two shots clear of the field. It was his third professional start. In December he was crowned the European Tour's Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year. Lewis played on the European Tour from 2012 with limited success. He lost his place after the 2016 season but regained it after a good performance at Q-school. Lewis showed a return to form in 2018. He played a number of the

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events. He was joint third in the Swedish Challenge in August before winning the Bridgestone Challenge in September and finish joint third again in the Kazakhstan Open the following week. A week later he won his second Portugal Masters title on the

. He had four other top-10 finishes on the European Tour, including a tie for fifth place in the Sky Sports British Masters and a tie for seventh in the DP World Tour Championship, Dubai. He finished 41st in the Order of Merit. On 2 September 2019, Lewis won the Korn Ferry Tour Championship and earned his

card for the 2019–20 season. It was his first career Korn Ferry start, qualifying for the Finals by earning enough points as a PGA Tour non-member. Lewis finished as a runner-up in August 2020 at the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational, three strokes behind winner

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. This was Lewis' career best finish on the PGA Tour to date.

Amateur wins

*2009 Carris Trophy, Boys Amateur Championship *2011 St Andrews Links Trophy Source:

Professional wins (4)

European Tour wins (2)

Korn Ferry Tour wins (1)

Challenge Tour wins (1)

Playoff record

PGA Tour of Australasia playoff record (0–1)

Results in major championships

''Results not in chronological order in 2020.'' LA = Low Amateur
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
NT = No tournament due to

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Results in The Players Championship

CUT = missed the halfway cut

Results in World Golf Championships

''Results not in chronological order before 2015.'' ¹Cancelled due to

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NT = No tournament
"T" = Tied

Team appearances

Amateur * European Boys' Team Championship (representing England): 2008, 2009 *

Jacques Léglise Trophy The Jacques Léglise Trophy is an annual amateur boys' team golf competition between Great Britain & Ireland and the Continent of Europe. It was first played in 1977, as a one-day match before the Boys Amateur Championship, but since 1996 it has ...

(representing Great Britain & Ireland): 2008 (winners), 2009 (winners) * European Amateur Team Championship (representing England):

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

(winners) *

Eisenhower Trophy The Eisenhower Trophy (World Men's Amateur Team Championships) is the biennial World Amateur Team Championship for men organized by the International Golf Federation. Since the tournament was first played in 1958 Eisenhower Trophy, 1958, it is nam ...

(representing England):

* St Andrews Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 2010 *

Walker Cup The Walker Cup is a golf trophy contested in odd-numbered years by leading male amateur golfers in two teams: United States, and Great Britain and Ireland featuring players from the United Kingdom and Ireland. The official name is the Walker Cup ...

(representing Great Britain & Ireland):

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

(winners)

References

External links

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Profile at ESPN
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